Special Branch officer to be quizzed over Omagh bombing

A SPECIAL Branch officer is to be questioned in a new twist to the police investigation into the Omagh bomb atrocity.

He is the chief suspect as the source of an anonymous telephone call which warned of a planned attack in the Co Tyrone town on the day 29 people were killed by the Real IRA.

The call to a detective in Omagh was made on August 4, 1998, 11 days before the bombing, but the information was never passed on to police on the ground.